It&#8217;s an astonishing statistic that took the internet by storm: 94% of jobs created in 2021 went to racial minorities. It&#8217;s also completely untrue.
The conclusion from Bloomberg — which credits five reporters and four editors for <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-black-lives-matter-equal-opportunity-corporate-diversity/?srnd=premium" target="_blank" rel="noopener">its report</a> — is that on the heels of the Black Lives Matter protests, corporations followed through on their promise to diversify their ranks. The outlet reported that companies in the S&amp;P 100 added 323,094 new employees in 2021, and that only 20,524 of those new jobs were filled by whites.
If true, such a statistic could launch a legion of victorious racial discrimination lawsuits — blacks, Asians, and Hispanics make up roughly 40% of the population, and there is no way they could obtain 94% of new jobs without some level of discrimination.
But the takeaway from Bloomberg is an example of innumeracy by journalists at an outlet once relied upon by businessmen for savvy financial analysis — or of willfully setting aside common sense in favor of what the publication acknowledged is an ideologically-driven &#8220;project to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-09-26/how-nike-cvs-amazon-drove-diversity-change-post-george-floyd-protests?srnd=premium&amp;leadSource=uverify%20wall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hold companies accountable</a> to [diversity] pledges.&#8221;
A Daily Wire analysis of the same numbers examined by Bloomberg found that, in reality, the demographics of hiring figures for 2021 were barely different from previous years. The percentage of new jobs that went to whites was likely about 46%, eight points below the 54% white makeup of companies&#8217; existing workforces. That&#8217;s to be expected given demographic changes in the United States since the time that the currently-retiring baby boomer generation first entered the workforce.
Though Bloomberg spun the tale as a victory for Black Lives Matter, blacks benefited the least of any racial group from the slight decline in whites, according to the analysis. The percentage of black hires was up from the status quo by 1%, while Asians were up by 2%, and Hispanics were up by 4%. That&#8217;s also explained by demographics — decades ago, when baby boomers entered the workforce, the U.S. was mostly white and black; in the decades since, the numbers of Hispanics and Asians in the United States have increased.
Here&#8217;s how Bloomberg got the story wrong, and how numbers actually work.
Bloomberg based its analysis on a form companies file to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission listing the racial breakdown of their U.S. employees. The forms are filed annually, but they don&#8217;t break out stats for employees hired that year; they just provide the total headcount of all employees by race.
Bloomberg, reaching for a way to isolate recent numbers, focused on the fact that companies increased their cumulative headcount by some 320,000 in 2021. Then they made a flawed leap of logic: They took the increase of minorities across the entire workforce, and divided it by the number of new positions — not the number of actual hires, which overwhelmingly come from replacing people who leave the company. In short, they got the denominator wrong.
&#8220;Bloomberg obtained 2020 and 2021 data for 88 S&amp;P 100 companies and calculated overall US job growth at those firms&#8230;.  Overall, these companies increased their headcount by 323,094 employees in 2021,&#8221; the outlet wrote. &#8220;Bloomberg then analyzed the racial makeup of those additional workers, finding that 94% of them were people of color.&#8221;
But it’s not possible from the data to say that those additional “people of color” took the 320,000 newly created positions. Most of them were almost certainly hired as part of a much larger group: replacements for existing jobs that were vacated by retirees or people changing jobs.
The 88 companies in Bloomberg’s study together employed 8.9 million workers in 2020. Based on a <a href="https://www.netsuite.com/portal/resource/articles/human-resources/employee-turnover-statistics.shtml#:~:text=What%20is%20a%20good%20employee,is%20known%20as%20involuntary%20turnover." target="_blank" rel="noopener">typical annual turnover rate of 18%</a>, an estimated 1.6 million people would have left and been replaced in 2021. So the increase in minorities shouldn&#8217;t be calculated as 300,000 out of 320,000 — it&#8217;s 300,000 out of roughly 2 million (1.6 million plus 320,000).
Some companies may have had no employment growth at all, just turnover from retirements. Bloomberg&#8217;s methodology could capture minor demographic changes across companies like this, then apply all those changes to a small number of newly-created positions from entirely different companies.
Take this hypothetical: There are two companies, each staffed by 100 white people. One of them replaces 20 retiring white employees with 20 black employees. The other is very profitable, so it creates 10 new positions, all given to whites. Bloomberg&#8217;s methodology would conclude that the companies, as a group, hired 20 black people into 10 new jobs, and that minorities received 200% of jobs. This is obviously impossible, and in fact, all of the new jobs went to whites.
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In 2020, the S&amp;P companies were just under 54% white. If every retiree was replaced with someone of the same race, and whites also got the same share of the new jobs, you&#8217;d expect to see 173,000 whites added. Bloomberg observes that there were only 20,000 whites added.
What this tells us is there was a shortage of approximately 153,000 whites — but that&#8217;s not across the 320,000, it&#8217;s across 2 million jobs filled. Instead of hiring just over 1 million whites (54%), they hired about 884,000 (45%).
On the &#8220;people of color&#8221; side, Bloomberg said that Hispanics grew by 131,000 in the 320,000 jobs. But they actually simply got their share of newly-created new jobs (54,000), plus out of the 864,000 whites retiring, 77,000 were replaced by Hispanics.
In all, we can compute that of the 2 million jobs filled in 2021, about 400,000 went to Hispanics — 20%, which is only slightly higher than the 17% in the legacy workforce.
Following the same logic, the number of 2021 hires who were Asian was 12%, slightly higher than the 10% of the legacy workforce, while blacks went up 1%, from 17% to 18%.
Though blacks benefited the least from the decline in whites, that&#8217;s expected because blacks, who make up 12% of the population, are actually overrepresented in the workforce studied by Bloomberg.
Robert VerBruggen, an economic policy fellow at the Manhattan Institute, agreed that Bloomberg’s analysis failed to take into account the workers leaving and their demographics.
“The country&#8217;s demographics are changing — older generations are much whiter than younger ones,” VerBruggen told The Daily Wire. “If whites are disproportionately retiring and non-whites are disproportionately getting jobs, that will skew the numbers, giving the appearance of a serious commitment to equity — or mass violations of civil-rights law, depending on one&#8217;s perspective.”
A telltale sign that Bloomberg&#8217;s &#8220;percentage of the net increase&#8221; methodology is flawed, VerBruggen explained, is that, if the departures of whites had been just a little higher, the net change in whites would have been negative instead of the actual small growth of 20,000. Bloomberg&#8217;s methodology would then assert that whites took a negative percentage of the new 320,000 jobs, a mathematic impossibility.
The study also received pushback from pollster Patrick Ruffini, who <a href="https://twitter.com/PatrickRuffini/status/1707022523391488291" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Bloomberg’s analysis was “statistically illiterate” and pointed out the outlet’s failure to take into account employee turnover.
“This stuff could be the product of generational turnover in the workforce,” Ruffini said. “If retirees are 80% white and new workers are 55% in line with demographics of young workers, you get numbers like this.”
Normally in journalism, there is a safeguard that comes in the form of calling the companies mentioned for comment. But Bloomberg said &#8220;none of the half-dozen companies with the most notable diversity gains wanted to discuss them in detail.&#8221;
The companies could have pointed out that Bloomberg&#8217;s methodology was flawed, and prevented them from publishing an error. But the error overstated their diversity gains, and it was clear from the reporters&#8217; bias that big diversity gains would be portrayed favorably. (The story was headlined “Corporate America Promised to Hire a Lot More People of Color. It Actually Did.”)
Asked about the methodology for its study, a Bloomberg spokeswoman said &#8220;We stand by our reporting and analysis.&#8221;
The Daily Wire&#8217;s calculations based on the data used by Bloomberg can be viewed below:
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Bloomberg Flubs Data For Bombshell Report That Only 6% Of New Corporate Hires Are White

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Media Bias

Parents in one Virginia school district continued to fight their school board in court this week to remove what they say is &#8220;racially divisive&#8221; curriculum content.
Five families <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/virginia-parents-appeal-remove-racially-divisive-curriculum-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> the school board of Albemarle County Public Schools in the Charlottesville area over a &#8220;discriminatory&#8221; policy they say indoctrinates students in a racially divisive ideology and compels them to say they support it.
The &#8220;racially and religiously diverse&#8221; group of families <a href="https://drupal-files-delivery.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2022-07/CI-v-Albemarle-County-School-Board-2022-06-27-Appeal-Notice-redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appealed</a> last year in June after a lower court dismissed their case.
Oral arguments in the appeal were <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/virginia-parents-appeal-remove-racially-divisive-curriculum-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held</a> Tuesday in the Virginia&#8217;s Court of Appeals.
The controversial <a href="https://esb.k12albemarle.org/Reference_Library/ESB_Policies_and_Regulations/Policies//ACC.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy</a>, which the school board enacted in 2019, requires schools to inject Critical Race Theory-inspired ideas into the classroom, the parents claim.
&#8220;All curriculum materials shall be examined for racial bias,&#8221; and the district &#8220;shall implement an anti-racist curriculum and provide educational resources for students at every grade level,&#8221; the policy states.
Parents in the school district are not allowed to opt their children out of the “anti-racist curriculum,” and those who dissent are labeled &#8220;racist,&#8221; the parents claim.
The parents allege that the policy violates students’ civil rights by treating them differently based on race as well as by compelling them to affirm ideas against their moral beliefs.
The families were represented in court by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).
“Every student deserves to be treated equally under the law, regardless of race or religion. Public schools can’t impose demeaning stereotypes on students based on these characteristics,” <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/virginia-parents-appeal-remove-racially-divisive-curriculum-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> ADF Senior Counsel Vincent Wagner in remarks ahead of the court hearing.
“Parents have the fundamental right to know what their kids are being taught in public schools and to protect them from policies and curriculum that compel them to affirm harmful ideologies. We urge the court to take a hard look at the school board’s discriminatory policy,” Wagner said.
Kate Anderson, senior counsel for ADF, said one of the activities students were required to do involved raising their hands to identify their &#8220;privilege&#8221; to their fellow students.
In another activity, students had to write down characteristics of the &#8220;oppressor&#8221; and &#8220;oppressed&#8221; classes, she said.
&#8220;And so what went in that box were &#8216;White, Christian male,&#8217; and then they were supposed to metaphorically break that box,&#8221; Anderson <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/virginia-parents-appeal-remove-antiracist-policy-school-district-racist-core" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News.
The lawsuit cited an eighth-grade pilot program for the new &#8220;anti-racist&#8221; curriculum that taught students that the U.S. “dominant culture” is people who are “white, middle class, Christian, and cisgender.”
The pilot program also claimed that “subordinate culture” includes “black, brown, indigenous people of color of the global majority, queer, transgendered, non-binary folx, cisgender women, youth, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, atheist, non-Christian folx, neurodiverse, folx with disabilities, folx living in poverty,” <a href="https://drupal-files-delivery.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2021-12/CI-v-Albemarle-County-School-Board-2021-12-22-Complaint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the complaint.
&#8220;And anti-racist is really code for adopting fully the CRT-based policy that views everyone through the lens of race,&#8221; Anderson <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/virginia-parents-appeal-remove-antiracist-policy-school-district-racist-core" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;And students were instructed in class that if they were silent, that supported the most egregious forms of racism, so that they had to adopt this ideology and incorporate it into their lives and announce that to their classroom in order to be in alignment with the policy.&#8221;
Critical Race Theory-inspired themes in curriculum content has become a hot button issue in recent years. Parents in school districts across the country have raised objections to their children being taught lessons with racial messages they find detrimental.

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Virginia Parents Fight School Board In Court To Remove ‘Racially Divisive’ Curriculum

Virginia Parents Fight School Board In Court To Remove 'Racially Divisive' Curriculum

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Virginia

A California school district spent $171,000 for “equity trainings” from a Left-wing consulting firm that uses Critical Race Theory, public records obtained by The Daily Wire reveal.
The <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/RUSDContract.pdf">contract</a> between the Riverside Unified School District and Epoch Education, a Left-wing education consulting firm, shows that the California school district purchased three different “equity series” coaching sessions and courses mired in Critical Race Theory.
One of the three programs called the Equity Learning Series includes 20 hours of online courses focused on the core tenets of Critical Race Theory like “systemic racial inequity,” intersectionality, racial privilege, and implicit bias. A <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/Epoch-Education-Equity-Learning-Series.pdf">program outline</a> obtained by The Daily Wire explains “participants will develop a common language and equity lens to identify and discuss equity issues.”
“Participants will learn to recognize and interrupt examples of marginalization and privilege” and “deepen their understanding of historical and systemic racial inequity,” the document reads.
A document from Epoch Education <a href="https://epocheducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/epoch-education-brochure_2022.pdf">states</a> that one of the other programs, the “Creating And Sustaining Equity Series” includes “deep transformative work” across five sessions that each last two hours. The program is intended for organizations that are “ready to go beyond allyship to anti-oppression.”
Though Critical Race Theory has taken root most notably in deep-blue states like California, education nonprofit Parents Defending Education has <a href="https://defendinged.org/map/?state-filter=&amp;district-filter=&amp;types-filter=incidents,parent-organizations,report,media-item,pde-investigations&amp;issues-filter=105&amp;public-private-filter=public,private">identified</a> hundreds of districts across the country, including in every state, that push Critical Race Theory and the equity agenda through teacher trainings, lesson plans, race-based affinity groups, reading lists, and other means.
But while an untold amount of money is spent on Left-wing education consulting programs, reading and math scores have <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183445544/u-s-reading-and-math-scores-drop-to-lowest-level-in-decades#:~:text=U.S.%20reading%20and%20math%20scores%20drop%20to%20lowest%20level%20in%20decades&amp;text=The%20average%20scores%2C%20from%20tests,are%20the%20lowest%20in%20decades.">plummeted to their lowest levels</a> in decades. White, black, male, and female students all showed steep declines in the two critical skills since 2020.
Epoch Education has admitted to using Critical Race Theory and even hosted a series of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFlHA9xXTXk">presentations</a> on Critical Race Theory, which discussed “racial awakening,” “racism as the heartbeat of America,” and “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C2B_8PJz3U">whiteness as property</a>.” Parents Defending Education <a href="https://defendinged.org/report/epoch-education/">notes</a> that Epoch Education sold courses titled “Critical Race Theory: From Theory to Practice,” though the course is no longer listed on the organization’s website.
The California school districts’ involvement with Epoch Education dates back to at least 2020, when Riverside&#8217;s Assistant Superintendent Jacqueline Perez <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/05/californias-riverside-school-district-lies-about-teaching-critical-race-theory/">gave a presentation</a> to the school board announcing the partnership with the Left-wing consulting firm. The slideshow, informed by professional development modules from Epoch Education, encouraged staff members to become “equity champions,” cultivate “cultural competency,” and explore “whiteness as property through Critical Race Theory.” Board members had claimed that Riverside was not teaching Critical Race Theory just a month earlier.
The district&#8217;s <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/02/california-school-district-tells-kids-attacking-whiteness-is-not-enough/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now-deleted</a> equity resource list page featured numerous Critical Race Theory texts, including an &#8220;Anti-Racist Reading List&#8221; and an essay called &#8220;Decentering Whiteness,&#8221; which <a href="https://www.euroamerican.org/public/DecenteringWhiteness.pdf">claims</a> that “white culture has, on balance, been based on principles of conquest and exploitation.”
Riverside Unified School District did not respond to a request for comment.

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‘Beyond Allyship To Anti-Oppression’: California School District Spends $170k On Critical Race Theory Teacher Training

'Beyond Allyship To Anti-Oppression': California School District Spends $170k On Critical Race Theory Teacher Training

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A woman who was sexually assaulted in school as a teenager says the founder of a prominent “social emotional learning” non-profit that receives funding from California public schools pressured her to drop charges against the teacher who attacked her because his arrest could contribute to the “over-incarceration” of black men.
Jennifer Freed, a psychologist, astrologist, and sex guru who runs the “social emotional learning” (SEL) non-profit AHA! Santa Barbara, conducts talk circles with high school students with the goal of “reducing emotional/physical violence in schools by building healthy campus climates,” according to its <a href="https://ahasb.org/about-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>. But a woman who participated in those talk circles as a high school student says Freed pressed her to let a teacher who tormented her with sexual advances off the hook.
The woman, who The Daily Wire is referring to only as Maria because she was the victim of an assault as a minor, says Freed delivered a lecture to her about how her accusations against the teacher would contribute to the mass incarceration of black men in America. Freed suggested, according to Maria, that she consider a “restorative approach instead of going to authorities” after the teacher grabbed her buttocks and nibbled her ear when she was 17.
“I was very scared of Jennifer because she’s very persistent in getting what she wants. She said I will feel better if I talk to him and do a restorative approach instead of going to authorities,” Maria told The Daily Wire. “I think it’s really inappropriate for a licensed psychologist to say that to a victim a week after they’ve been assaulted by someone in authority. That really harmed me.”
Freed’s group AHA! Santa Barbara has gained national prominence for its work to advance SEL, a school curriculum that has been embraced by the Left in recent years. Freed’s organization has been feted by celebrities such as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who <a href="https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a43891929/prince-harry-meghan-markle-santa-barbara-youth-group-photos/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">visited</a> the organization in May to herald its purported mental health benefits for youth. But the actions by Freed could fuel critics who say SEL prioritizes leftist politics over children’s emotional well-being.
Maria did not take Freed’s advice. Her accusations against the teacher, a black nationalist and socialist named Matef Harmachis, led to a criminal conviction for battery in 2017, his firing from the school in 2020, and a nearly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-school-district-pays-1m-to-victim-of-disgraced-teacher-and-ethnic-studies-activist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$1 million settlement</a> with the school district just months ago in a lawsuit that faulted the district for keeping Harmachis on staff despite years of sexually inappropriate behavior.
Freed is just one of the leftists who Maria says turned on her in defense of Harmachis. She told The Daily Wire that she is now “scared for [her] safety” after seeing far-left activists defend her attacker as the real victim because of his race.
(READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scared-for-my-safety-sexual-assault-victim-stunned-as-leftists-defend-teacher-who-attacked-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Scared For My Safety’: Sexual Assault Victim Stunned As Leftists Defend Teacher Who Attacked Her</a>)
Freed has denied that she knows Harmachis or pressured Maria to drop charges, saying she had nothing to do with the case and didn’t know why anyone would say that. But after a previous Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/radical-activist-teacher-got-away-with-shocking-behavior-for-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on Harmachis, Freed took to Facebook to state that she had evidence that Maria had a positive view of her group.
&#8220;I have actual testimonials on video etc from MARIA about the groups AHA! and how much she gained,” Freed wrote. It is not clear how Freed would have even known who the pseudonym Maria referred to if she had nothing to do with the case.
For this story, Maria provided a detailed recounting of the encounter with Freed, which involved Freed asking to pick her up at her house and drive her to a restaurant called Public Market for lunch.
Maria said she met Freed at the restaurant instead and didn&#8217;t order any food. Freed said that she had &#8220;been hearing a lot of things about you&#8221; and that she’s &#8220;known Harmachis for a long time, we&#8217;re close friends,&#8221; according to Maria.
&#8220;You know what the rates of black men being incarcerated are. Knowing you, I know you&#8217;d just want to do a connection circle instead of pressing charges, and I&#8217;d facilitate that,&#8221; Freed continued, according to Maria. Maria said she sat in stunned silence, until Freed said she was going to tell the principal the next day that Maria had consented to the plan.
&#8220;She&#8217;s saying she&#8217;s going to say these things that I don&#8217;t want her to say. It seemed really wrong and transactional. I felt betrayed, I&#8217;ve known this person since I was like 13,&#8221; Maria told The Daily Wire. &#8220;She&#8217;s a licensed psychologist, why is she saying these things to me?&#8221;
One reason, Maria suspects, is that Harmachis’ wife, an ethnic studies professor named Diane Fujino, sits on the board of directors of a group that contributes money to AHA! Santa Barbara’s “social emotional learning” programs. Fujino’s Fund for Santa Barbara is listed in the group’s <a href="https://ahasb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AR_2020.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">annual report</a> as a donor.
“Now I feel like I was just a pawn that they wanted to get rid of because I was interrupting their business,” she said. “Of course she would encourage me to drop charges, she’s getting money from the district and she’s friends with my perpetrator.”
Freed declined an interview with The Daily Wire to reconcile her blanket denial with Maria’s detailed account.
“I have devoted much of my career to helping youths process trauma and learn methods of empowerment and resilience as a means to protect them from all forms of violence and become thriving community members,” Freed said in an email.
Maria said that besides the Harmachis incident, Freed used the talk circles to push her to be more sexually active, pushing students to consider masturbation and lesbian experiences. “I always pushed back against her when she was very sexually positive. At that time I wasn’t,” she said. “I felt like she was just laughing at me. It was like, you’re really crossing a boundary.”
“I was one of the only heterosexuals and Jennifer would question that and say, ‘Why can’t you be both?’ And I said, ‘Well, I’m not attracted to women.’ And she said, ‘I think the world would operate better if everyone was gay,’” Maria said. “I didn’t want to be pushed. I don’t want an adult to talk to me about personal intimate things.”
Freed has publicly discussed these after-school circles, explaining on the podcast <a href="https://sexwithemily.com/dr-jennifer-freed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sex With Emily</a>: “This is what we do with the teens, once we’ve heard from them all their basic misconceptions about sex, like guys only want girls who have completely shaved pubes and then find us disgusting unless we’re bare. Then we go ok, how’s that working for you?” A photo of her with the podcast host Emily showed her in a room full of sex toys.
AHA! Santa Barbara asked participants to sign waivers allowing Freed to use their images for promotional and fundraising purposes, then frequently directed them to record video testimonials praising the program, Maria said.
Freed’s invocation of video records of Maria in her possession raises concerns about the leverage that adults who engage in sex talk with children as part of SEL could have over them. Not only could such marketing materials be used to undercut youth’s credibility should they criticize the program, but if a teen girl was troubled by the conduct of SEL consultants and was tempted to sound the alarm, she would likely be conscious that the consultant knew plenty of embarrassing personal details about her—the type they are encouraged to disclose in talk circles.
In NXIVM, the brutal sex-slave cult that began as a &#8220;self-help&#8221; group run by a psychiatric nurse, women had to turn over embarrassing information which served as &#8220;collateral&#8221; to dissuade them from defecting, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/nxivm-timeline.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
Though Freed never made such a threat to Maria, the young hispanic immigrant said “of course” the secrets shared in the talk circles made it scary to call her out. “Because of the way she probed me I thought I needed to be extra nice to her,” she said.
Maria says her negative experience with Freed has impacted her ability to seek professional mental help.
“It took me a long time to disassociate psychologists with people like Jennifer,” Maria said. “She did a lot of harm to me, and I can only imagine the harm she does to other children. I don’t trust her.”
Read the Daily Wire’s series on indoctrination and abuse in the Santa Barbara schools:
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scared-for-my-safety-sexual-assault-victim-stunned-as-leftists-defend-teacher-who-attacked-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Scared For My Safety’: Sexual Assault Victim Stunned As Leftists Defend Teacher Who Attacked Her</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-a-cult-how-wealthy-santa-barbara-foreshadowed-the-fight-against-crackpot-curriculum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘This Is A Cult’: How Wealthy Santa Barbara Foreshadowed The Fight Against Crackpot Curriculum</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/radical-activist-teacher-got-away-with-shocking-behavior-for-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Radical Activist Teacher Got Away With Shocking Behavior For Years</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-disgraced-teacher-who-took-the-name-of-an-egyptian-god-and-radicalized-a-school-district" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Disgraced Teacher Who Took The Name Of An Egyptian God And Radicalized A School District</a>

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Woman Abused As Teen Says School’s ‘Social Emotional Learning’ Guru Pressed Her To Drop Charges Because Her Teacher Assailant Was Black

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Oracle, a giant of the tech industry, hosted scholarship and internship opportunities in conjunction with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) that excluded both white and Asian applicants on the basis of their race.
The two opportunities specifically notify white and Asian individuals who attempt to apply that they are ineligible on the basis of their race.
One of the two programs, archived <a href="https://archive.ph/9ioeZ">here</a>, is called the “<a href="https://scholarships.uncf.org/Program/Details/940e57b3-c32c-4e6d-b92e-323d3e8a4df3">Oracle Corporate Scholars Program</a>.” According to the description, “The Oracle Corporate Scholars Program provides extended learning experiences at Oracle headquarters during the summer of 2023.” It goes on to list the racial requirements, saying, “The program includes scholarship support for African American, Hispanics or Native Americans.”
Under a section titled “eligibility requirements,” the description lists acceptable ethnicities, which excludes white and Asian applicants and instead are limited to “African American/Black, American Indian &#8211; Alaska Native, Hispanic American.”
“Successful candidates will be offered internships during the summer of 2023 and subsequent scholarship awards for academic year 2023-24 upon successful completion of the program,” it also explains. 
An almost identical program lists the same selection criteria. Titled the “<a href="https://scholarships.uncf.org/Program/Details/39e5bfc9-d224-44b5-b935-1d627e27ef26">Oracle Developer Scholars Program</a>” and archived <a href="https://scholarships.uncf.org/Program/Details/39e5bfc9-d224-44b5-b935-1d627e27ef26">here</a>, the description says, “The Oracle Developers Scholars Program seeks to identify students to serve as technical development interns during the summer of 2023.”
At the conclusion of the internship, interns will have an opportunity to receive a $10,000 scholarship for the 2023-2024 academic school year,” it also notes.“This program seeks Black, Hispanic, and Native American students,” it goes on to say. The program lists the same race-based eligibility requirements.
Oracle advertises the two racially discriminatory internship offerings on its <a href="https://www.oracle.com/corporate/careers/students-grads/uncfscholars/">website</a>, archived <a href="https://archive.ph/zHDin">here,</a> saying, “We offer two different types of programs for students who come from underrepresented communities in STEM.”
The tech company has partnered with the United Negro College Fund to give “students from underrepresented communities the opportunity to launch their career with a world-class internship experience and scholarship funding.” It also notes donations of more than $12 million “to our shared mission.”
Oracle is set to hold the same internship and scholarship opportunities in the summer of 2024. Applicants can apply for the programs on the United Negro College Fund website but are barred from accessing the application if their profile lists “Caucasian” or “Asian Pacific Islander American” as their ethnicity. 
When white and Asian applicants click the “apply now” button on the Oracle Corporate Scholars Program page, they are informed, “Based off the following information in your applicant profile, you are deemed ineligible for this opportunity.”
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<a href="https://www.law.gmu.edu/faculty/directory/fulltime/bernstein_david">David Bernstein</a>, a professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, told The Daily Wire that, although an individual who was barred from applying might have standing to sue, “it’s a tricky question.”
“It looks like Oracle has delegated selection of the candidate, and that UNCF determines the rules for who can apply. UNCF isn&#8217;t bound by Title VII, because it&#8217;s not the employer,” Berstein added. He went on to note, however, “I think that if someone sued Oracle for hiring a grant recipient, knowing that whites and Asians were excluded, that person would likely win.”
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Oracle is not the only tech company that has hosted racially discriminatory internship opportunities that disadvantage white and Asian people. A <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/google-partners-with-top-universities-for-this-prestigious-fellowship-lawyers-say-the-racial-and-gender-quotas-its-imposing-are-illegal/">report</a> from the Washington Free Beacon found that Google put a cap on the number of white and Asian students that universities could nominate for a fellowship program.
<a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/a-microsoft-fellowship-caps-the-number-of-white-and-asian-applicants-lawyers-say-thats-illegal/">Microsoft</a> also capped the number of white and Asian students that could be nominated for one of the tech company’s fellowships. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical giant <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/pfizer-hit-with-lawsuit-over-fellowship-that-excludes-whites-and-asians/">Pfizer</a> was hit with a lawsuit over a fellowship that racially discriminates against whites and Asians.
There’s also Voya Investment Management, which <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2023/04/20/investment-management-firm-voya-excludes-whites-from-internship-scholarship/">hosted</a> a Financial Services Diversity Scholarship <a href="https://archive.ph/V8HKm#">Program</a> that did not allow white applicants, with an eligibility requirement reading “Self-identify as Black or African American; Hispanic or Latino; American Indian or Alaska Native American; Asian; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; or multi-racial.”
Oracle did not respond to a request for comment.

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Oracle Internship, Scholarship Opportunities Bar Whites And Asians On The Basis Of Race

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Courses involving &#8220;Critical Whiteness Studies,&#8221; an offshoot of Critical Race Theory, will be available to students at several colleges across the country during the upcoming 2023-2024 school year.
The University of New Mexico’s Department of English Language and Literature will host a &#8220;Critical Whiteness Studies&#8221; <a href="https://english.unm.edu/grad/current-students/courses/upcoming-fall.html">course</a> in Fall 2023, where students “will learn about whiteness as an ideology of supremacy and domination.”
“Our goal in this course is to learn how to identify and challenge whiteness as part of an antiracist practice,” the course description says.
A <a href="https://catalog.ucdenver.edu/cu-denver/undergraduate/courses-a-z/edfn/edfn.pdf">course</a> titled “Problematizing Whiteness: Educating for Racial Justice” at the University of Colorado, Denver, asserts that “Critical Whiteness Studies provides a deeper analysis of race that accounts for both sides … the plight of people of color and how white people are complicit.
The University of Oregon also <a href="https://catalog.uoregon.edu/courses/crs-es/">hosts</a> a class titled “Critical Whiteness Studies,” which “explores the social construction of race by investigating and historicizing ‘whiteness’ as a racial category in the U.S.” The University of Oregon also hosts courses on “Environmental Racism” and “Feminist Theories of Race.”
One <a href="https://catalog.usfca.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=38&amp;poid=36311">course</a> at the University of San Francisco&#8217;s School of Education, called &#8220;<a href="https://catalog.usfca.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=38&amp;poid=36086&amp;hl=ime+644&amp;returnto=search">Whiteness, Power and Privilege</a>,&#8221; will explore &#8220;racialization and racism through the lens of Critical Whiteness Studies.&#8221; It also offers an &#8220;examination of whiteness as the driving force behind &#8230; oppression.&#8221;
The University of Puget Sound hosted a <a href="https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/english/courses#:~:text=Critical%20Whiteness%20Studies,society%20it%20influences%20and%20reflects.">course</a> on &#8220;Critical Whiteness Studies&#8221; through the English Department in the 2022-2023 school year. The course &#8220;engages with &#8216;whiteness&#8217; as a category of identification in order to develop a theoretically informed understanding of the history, function, and effects of racial encoding within literature.&#8221;
A <a href="https://african.wisc.edu/courses/african-405-the-problem-of-whiteness/">now-deleted</a> course listing from the University of Wisconsin Madison’s African Cultural Studies, which is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210116185706/https://african.wisc.edu/courses/african-405-the-problem-of-whiteness/">archived here</a>, was titled “The Problem of Whiteness.” The course description explained that “Critical Whiteness Studies aims to understand how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced in order to help dismantle white supremacy.”
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It added “Our class will break away from the standard US-centric frame, and consider how whiteness is constructed globally.” The course also discussed how white people “consciously and unconsciously perpetuate institutional racism.”
Johnathan Butcher, a Will Skillman Senior Research Fellow in Education Policy for the Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Wire that &#8220;Any &#8216;critical studies&#8217; are applications or extensions of critical theory, the neo-Marxist worldview developed by Max Horkheimer and the Frankfurt School in the 1930s.&#8221;
While Butcher said that there is &#8220;little to distinguish&#8221; Critical Race Theory from &#8220;Critical Whiteness Studies,&#8221; he contended that &#8220;the &#8216;whiteness&#8217; studies claim that whiteness is &#8216;an ideology of supremacy&#8217; and not just a skin color,&#8221; a claim that regurgitates &#8220;the same concepts from critical race theory, in a very pointed fashion.&#8221;
&#8220;The theories — critical legal theory, race theory, queer theory, etc.—are based on the idea that the world can only be explained in terms of power struggles between different identity groups and any existing laws or customs were designed by white individuals to maintain their power,&#8221; he went on to explain.
Butcher, who authored a <a href="https://www.heritage.org/splintered">book</a> on Critical Race Theory, also added that these theories &#8220;reject the idea of equality under the law and individual responsibility,&#8221; instead positing that &#8220;identity groups are victims of structural oppression caused by (white) ruling authorities.&#8221;
The courses come amidst a <a href="https://criticalrace.org">sustained effort</a> to embed Critical Race Theory in both K-12 education and higher education.
Hobart and Williams College’s “Perspectives on Ballet” class will focus on the overlap of race and dance. The <a href="https://www.hws.edu/catalogue/danc.aspx">course</a> will examine “the ways in which ballet represents a Eurocentric perspective on dance, and how the history of ballet has centered whiteness.”
The description goes on to allege that “Ballet … has developed in connection with dominant social, artistic, and political belief systems, many of which contain racist, sexist, ableist, and discriminatory ideologies.”
Butcher <a href="https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/arizona-state-university-and-offerings-the-temple-the-woke">pointed out</a> that Arizona State University School of Music, Dance, and Theater previously <a href="https://news.asu.edu/20210721-critical-race-theory-scholar-joins-asu-school-music-dance-and-theatre">hired a Critical Race Theorist</a> to teach music education courses.
A social work <a href="https://catalog.louisville.edu/undergraduate/courses/bsw/">course</a> at the University of Louisville called “Historical and Contemporary Abolitionism and Anti-Racism” boasted that students will learn “strategies for engaging in anti-racism and de-centering Whiteness including re-education about the history of race and racism.”
The Ohio State University’s College of Education and Human Ecology offers an <a href="https://ehe.osu.edu/academics/curriculum/anti-racism-certificate">Anti-Racism Certificate</a>, which includes classes based on the tenets of Critical Race Theory. Courses include “Anti-racist, Culturally Responsive Education,” “Multicultural and Social Justice Issues in Counseling,” “Critical Race Theory in Education,” and “Exploring Whiteness,” among others.
There&#8217;s also a “Black Queer Studies” <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=23374">course</a> at the University of Maryland that seeks to “center Blackness to meditate upon the overlapping and interwoven categories of race, gender, and sexuality with the goal of decoupling whiteness from LGBTQ+ studies and decoupling heterosexuality from Black studies.”

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National summer camp organizations have adopted practices and policies based on gender identity theory, “trans inclusion,” and Critical Race Theory (CRT).
The American Camp Association (ACA), an <a href="https://www.acacamps.org/about">organization</a> of 10,000 summer camp professionals, is one of the groups that has embedded leftwing theories on race and gender into their operations. The organization is also responsible for accrediting summer camps across the country.
ACA’s <a href="https://indd.adobe.com/view/4c0730cc-7419-4059-9f46-6250cd1fe2a6">2023 National conference</a>, which took place in February, included one session, titled “Trans Inclusion in Overnight Programs.” It focused on “best practices for overnight camps striving to be welcoming spaces for trans and gender non-conforming campers and staff.” The session was led by Chris Rehs-Dupin, the founder of a group that hosts trainings on “LGBTQIA+ inclusive practices” called <a href="https://www.transplainingforcamps.com/">Transplaining for Camps</a>.
“Transplaining for Camps exists to help camps build inclusive practices that will create spaces of belonging for campers and staff of all gender identities and sexualities,” the organization’s <a href="https://www.transplainingforcamps.com/summer-staff-training">website</a> reads.
Another ACA conference session, which focused on the creation of racially exclusive “affinity groups,” was titled “Creating Belonging Through Affinity Spaces At Camp” and led by members of the <a href="https://alohafoundation.org/">Aloha Foundation</a>, which runs camp programs in Vermont.
The Aloha Foundation’s “Equity and Inclusion” page <a href="https://alohafoundation.org/equity-inclusion/">defines</a> affinity spaces as “identity-based groups that allow people who share an identity to connect, talk openly about issues related to that identity, and brainstorm positive action steps for promoting inclusion and equity,” before noting that they “center around historically marginalized identities.”
The Aloha Foundation also discusses their stance on gender identity issues, writing “We know that our camp communities include gender identities that do not fall into binary gender categories, and we strive to create inclusive spaces for all campers and staff. The Aloha Foundation takes a gender expansive view.”
Campers are given the opportunity to “disrupt societal constraints, stereotypes, and traditional perceptions of what it means to be a ‘girl” or “boy,’” it goes on to note, before also saying that their stance on gender is “inspired by Transplaining.”
Meanwhile, a different session at the ACA conference, titled “Centering Equity and Justice at Summer Camp: The Kids Are Ready” argues that there is an evident need “to tackle issues of social justice with our young people … and provide them not only with a safe(r) space to discuss these topics but the tools to become agents of change.”
Other ACA sessions included “Creating Safe and Affirming Spaces for LGBTQIA2S+ Folks at Camp” and “Lessons Learned in LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Practices.” The ACA also has a “<a href="https://www.acacamps.org/sites/default/files/downloads/Checklist%20for%20Gender%20Inclusive%20Practices%20at%20Camp.pdf">checklist</a> for gender inclusive practices at camp” and a “<a href="https://www.acacamps.org/sites/default/files/downloads/Camp%20Gender%20Support%20Plan%202.16.16.pdf">gender support plan</a> for camp” created by Gender Spectrum, an organization that promotes child transgenderism.
But the ACA is just one of several summer camp organizations that has embraced leftist beliefs on sex and race. There’s also Outward Bound USA, which <a href="https://www.outwardbound.org/">describes itself</a> as “the leading provider of outdoor education programs that allow young people to explore their personal potential.”
An <a href="https://www.outwardbound.org/our-difference/equity-statement/">equity statement</a> from Outward Bound USA claims that the “outdoor community was and is a part of the underlying structure of injustice that governs American society,” also going on to add “we are deeply committed to dismantling inequities and working to write a new chapter.”
The organization, which leads nature trips for middle and high school students, published a “common terms and language” <a href="https://www.outwardbound.org/our-difference/equity-statement/common-terms/">list</a> that decries microaggressions and exalts intersectionality. It also directs readers to a site that encourages white allies to be “<a href="https://www.whiteaccomplices.org/">accomplices</a>” who “directly challenge institutionalized racism, colonization, and white supremacy” rather than just allies.
There’s also Camp Fire, an organization that <a href="https://campfire.org/programs/">runs</a> teen leadership events and camps, and seeks to connect young people to the outdoors “through playful, inclusive, affordable, and powerful out-of-class experiences.” It <a href="https://campfire.org/">boasts</a> that it has over 1,300 program sites across the country.
One portion of Camp Fire’s site <a href="https://campfire.org/dei/">states</a> “we want to honor the significant and largely unrecognized contributions of Two Spirit and Indigenous people,” adding that the term is “designated for Native, Indigenous, and Alaska Native LGBTQ+ individuals. It goes on to say “The word came from the Anishinabe language and means having both female and male spirits within one person.”
“Sharing our personal pronouns affirms our belief that every individual has the right to define their own identity,” the organization’s site also <a href="https://campfire.org/pronouns/">states</a>. It lists sample pronouns, which includes “Ze/Hir/Hirs.”
A recent <a href="https://campfire.org/blog/article/dear-young-people/">blog post</a> from the organization states “2SLGBTQ+ youth in states across the country who are facing attacks by lawmakers, we see you and believe you.” It goes on to read “to Black, Brown, and Indigenous youth who see their histories and stories being silenced and erased, we hear you and will continue to stand with you” before alleging that the Supreme Court’s recent decision to end affirmative action “denies the value of your lived experiences and the historical exploitation, exclusion, and erasure of Black and Brown people.”
One <a href="https://campfire.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/StrategicPlanFinalJan292021.pdf">strategic planning document</a> from Camp Fire focuses on anti-racism work and the creation of a “race-equity culture,” where “programs are culturally responsive and explicit about race, racism, and race equity.”
Numerous individual camps have also embraced leftwing theories on gender and race. Colorado’s Camp Granite Lake addresses transgender identification and cabin placement in a memo that was <a href="https://www.campgranitelake.com/gender-pronouns-and-politics-at-camp/">removed</a> from the site but <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230330232531/https://www.campgranitelake.com/gender-pronouns-and-politics-at-camp/">archived here</a>. “Our longstanding guideline has been to allow campers and staff to live and work in a cabin of the gender with which they most closely identify,” it reads.
Their site also explains that camp staff will refer to children based off their preferred name or pronouns regardless of the wishes of the parent. “At camp, we will acknowledge the name and/or pronoun change during the session,” Camp Granite Lake <a href="https://www.campgranitelake.com/gender-pronouns-and-politics-at-camp/">says</a> before going on to state “While parents and caregivers may choose a different approach at home, as a youth serving organization, it’s not within our scope to tell campers what they are not.”
Cheley Colorado Camps, which is accredited by the ACA, <a href="https://www.cheley.com/dei/">contends</a> that there is a difference between gender and sexuality, saying “A person’s sexuality is who they are attracted to and their gender is who they are” before providing examples like ‘non-binary or two-spirit (which is specific to Indigenous communities).”
A <a href="https://www.cheley.com/land-acknowledgement/">land acknowledgement</a> from the camp reads “We are conscious of and saddened by the exclusions and erasures of Indigenous peoples that resulted in our being on stolen land.”
The Daily Wire recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colorado-summer-camp-will-house-trans-adults-in-kids-cabins-without-telling-parents-if-they-ask">revealed</a> that a different Colorado summer camp allows adults of the opposite sex who identify as transgender to room in the same cabins as campers. The camp also refuses to tell parents if their child will be rooming with an adult of the opposite sex. The camp is also accredited by the ACA.
Maine&#8217;s Camp Chewonki, which is <a href="https://camp.chewonki.org/about/american-camping-association-accrediation/">accredited</a> by the ACA has a <a href="https://chewonki.org/about/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-at-chewonki/">diversity statement</a> which notes “We revised the overall Camp Chewonki program structure to be more explicitly inclusive of the gender spectrum by naming non-binary participants in the program description language.”
It also states that the camp has modified its farm and food systems curriculum to “spend more time discussing indigenous food systems,” and to “use honest language (ex. colonizers as opposed to settlers or explorers) with all ages.” The curriculum will also “center the stories of many types of farms and farmers in our lessons- all with a consistent awareness of White Supremacy Culture.”
Camp Reimagined, a New York-based summer camp program with both overnight and day camps, <a href="https://campreimagined.org/">seeks</a> to “build the inclusive camp environments that all youth deserve.” The organization’s site reads “We exist to reorient youth to what is possible while working towards socially and racially just, gender-inclusive camp environments.” Camp Reimagined also works directly with Transplaining.
A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chest-binders-and-sleeping-bags-summer-camps-for-transgender-kids-as-young-as-4-the-new-craze"> report</a> from The Daily Wire revealed that there are also several summer camps across the country that have not only adopted policies based on gender theory or Critical Race Theory, but are specifically intended for children who identify as transgender or LGBT.
The ACA, Outward Bound USA, and Camp Fire did not respond to requests for comment.

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Summer Camps Embrace Gender Theory, ‘Trans Inclusion,’ Critical Race Theory

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California has received widespread attention over its consideration of a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-black-reparations-racism-e7377631044ef6325b042ea56456d81b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multi-billion</a> dollar reparations package that could exceed the state’s annual budget. But a lesser-known plan to “rectify racial biases” threatens to change the way that the Golden State approaches criminal sentencing; by mandating that race is taken into account.
California <a href="https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB852/id/2698785" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assembly Bill 852</a>, which was introduced by Assemblyman and Reparations Task Force <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/members/bios" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Member</a> Reginald Jones-Sawyer (D-57) , seeks to put race at the forefront of the criminal sentencing process by amending the penal code. The bill passed in the Assembly in May by a vote of 58 to 13, with nine abstentions.
The two concluding lines of the <a href="https://fastdemocracy.com/bill-search/ca/2023-2024/bills/CAB00029290/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill summary</a> read “This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to rectify racial bias, as specified. The bill would require courts, whenever they have discretion to determine a sentence, to consider the disparate impact on historically disenfranchised and system-impacted populations.”
The <a href="https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB852/id/2698785" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> itself is extremely short at just two sentences. “It is the intent of the Legislature to rectify the racial bias that has historically permeated our criminal justice system as documented by the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans,” AB 852 reads.
It further states “Whenever the court has discretion to determine the appropriate sentence according to relevant statutes and the sentencing rules of the Judicial Council, the court presiding over a criminal matter shall consider the disparate impact on historically disenfranchised and system-impacted populations.”
California Assemblyman Bill Essayli (R-63), who represents a district in the Inland Empire that spans from Riverside to Lake Elsinore, has been the bill’s most vocal opponent. “Lady justice is blind. Asking her to take off the blindfold to look at someone’s race I think is wrong, and I believe it is unconstitutional,” Essayli said in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKoqVwlREQc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> on the floor of the California Assembly. “I do not believe that skin color should be considered in sentencing.”
Essayli doubled down on his criticisms of the legislation in an interview with The Daily Wire, stating “We have a word for this policy. It&#8217;s called racist. It&#8217;s a racist policy. It&#8217;s the strict definition of it,” also charging “it&#8217;s a reflection on where the Democratic Party is today.”
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AB852?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AB852</a> would require judges to consider a person’s race when determining a criminal’s prison sentence. Lady Justice has a blindfold for a reason and this bill takes America backwards. Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IngrahamAngle</a> for having me on. <a href="https://t.co/4Rgn3etQuB">pic.twitter.com/4Rgn3etQuB</a>
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He went on to call the Democratic Party “out-of-touch” and “unAmerican,” highlighting a <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/11/04/california-voters-reject-affirmative-action-measure-despite-summer-of-activism-9424555" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed attempt</a> from the left in 2020 to allow the government and public institutions to offer preferential treatment on the basis of race for employment, education, and contracting. The <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_16,_Repeal_Proposition_209_Affirmative_Action_Amendment_(2020)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposition</a> was rejected by more than a 14-point margin.
But Essayli also warned that the bill will likely pass, remarking “I think it will pass the legislature, no matter how unconstitutional it is,” also asserting that “this legislature in California is so radicalized.” Essayli argued that “they will pass anything in the name of virtue signaling.”
“Because this bill is authored by someone who&#8217;s on this reparations task force, and they&#8217;ve made it all about racial equity and social justice, they will pass this bill,” he went on to say before predicting “It will likely get signed and it will be struck down as unconstitutional by a judge.”
Essayli condemned what he believes to be the Democratic Party’s disregard for the Constitution, charging “They claim to be the protectors of democracy. Meanwhile, they&#8217;re the ones who undermine democracy left and right.”
He also spoke to the consequences of “doubling down on this lie that … the system is racist against black people,” noting that it results in legislation like AB852 that argues “we have to let the judge take race into account at sentencing for the purposes of giving them a lower sentence.”
Essayli also shed light on an otherwise bewildering fact: the brevity of the two-sentence-long piece of legislation. “It’s written simply and short by design, because they present it … as a statement bill that doesn’t really do anything,” other than to acknowledge “the racial inequality in our criminal justice system.”
But the assemblyman, a former prosecutor, clarified that the bill would in fact change the penal code. “This tells judges that if they have discretion to oppose a particular sentence, they have to give a lower sentence to a black criminal defendant.” He noted that “This is policy, but it is packaged, designed, and sold as just a simple statement bill.”
The bill passed through the California Assembly and awaits consideration in the California Senate.

A tour of the Short-Term Restricted Housing Unit (aka segregated/solitary confinement) at California State Prison in Folsom.

California Assemblyman Speaks Out Against Race-Based Criminal Sentencing

Crime

Prison

Readers Pass

A private school in Ohio has been accused of alerting the FBI and local police on two mothers — whose kids were expelled from the academy — after they exposed Critical Race Theory curriculum teachings and financial mismanagement, according to a complaint.
Amy Gonzalez and Andrea Gross filed a <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6494e7535f942320f6ee239c/t/64950f9e1803603266cdc6a3/1687490467717/CA+Complaint+%7C+FILED.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaint</a> against Columbus Academy — just outside Columbus, Ohio — and the school&#8217;s headmaster Melissa Soderberg on June 12 for alleged intentional infliction of emotional distress, civil conspiracy, and violation of the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act.
&#8220;This lawsuit is a result of two years of concerted work to protect our children against the conspiracy concocted by CA and some of their members,&#8221; Gonzalez said in a <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pro-ca-coalition-founders-amy-gonzalez-and-andrea-gross-file-lawsuit-against-columbus-academy-headmaster-melissa-soderberg-301858204.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>. &#8220;Expelling our innocent children is retaliatory in nature and in effort to indirectly squelch our efforts in uncovering these financial wrongdoings.&#8221;
According to the complaint, the exclusive academy expelled Gonzalez and Gross&#8217;s children — both in 6th grade at the time — without prior warning or discussion in 2021 and further launched a bullying campaign against the families by reporting them as &#8220;potential threats&#8221; and portraying them as &#8220;violent and racists&#8221; to local and federal authorities.
The academy, which teaches students grades K-12, is a private school that was founded 112 years ago and is one of the state&#8217;s most prestigious learning institutions.
During the pandemic, the mothers noticed irregularities in how the school allegedly handled its finances, including allegedly segregating money available to certain minority groups while certain establishment members wrongfully benefitted from their association with the school.
The complaint also alleges some students were intimidated and bullied based on their political beliefs, citing one teacher from the academy who allegedly told his students he would not communicate with anyone who supported former President Donald Trump.
&#8220;Politically charged issues were regularly taught and discussed in the classroom without opposing viewpoints presented,&#8221; the complaint said.
The mothers <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ohio-moms-react-vicious-school-reported-them-fbi-exposing-left-wing-crt-curriculum-complaint" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News their requests for transparency over the school&#8217;s curriculum and fiduciary compliance were met with an &#8220;overreaction&#8221; from the academy.
&#8220;And so when I say an overreaction, I mean an overreaction of calling the police on us, alerting almost 900 faculty members that they had alerted the FBI that we were dangerous,&#8221; Gross said. &#8220;Just things that were so far beyond the pale that it would lead one to ask why? Why is the reaction so extreme?&#8221;
Gonzalez told the outlet the school&#8217;s response was &#8220;predatory alienation.&#8221;
&#8220;I believe that whenever they weaponize a federal agency in order to intimidate us and to promulgate fear in the faculty, they never told the entire community as far as parents that they had alerted the FBI,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But they told the teachers that. So, you know, teachers walked out of that meeting, like, are we supposed to be afraid or what exactly does this mean?&#8221;
Gross added the academy&#8217;s campaign against her family caused the community to turn against them and forced her daughter to enroll in another school outside the state.
&#8220;Upon information and belief, the Academy&#8217;s vicious treatment of the Parent Plaintiffs, and by relation, their children, including improperly invoking governmental investigative agencies, disseminating false information, and engaging in a coordinated effort to destroy their reputations in the community, was retaliation to prevent any further inquiry financial wrongdoing of the Academy,&#8221; the complaint said.
The complaint stated, &#8220;the Academy&#8217;s head of Security … filed a false police report against the Parent Plaintiffs with the Gahanna Police Department.&#8221;
&#8220;During the meeting when faculty was told the FBI had been alerted, the environment was such that one of the Academy&#8217;s faculty members raised his/her hand and asked if the Child Plaintiffs should be treated differently. Another member of faculty stated, &#8216;it sounds like we have a mole,'&#8221; the complaint said.
&#8220;The actions of the Academy and those of its affiliates, as directed by the Academy, had an extreme impact on the wellbeing of Plaintiffs. The Academy falsely accused the Parent Plaintiffs of being dangerous to the health and wellbeing of the entire Academy community and destroyed their reputations with many of the people they had spent years working and learning with,&#8221; the complaint continued.
Columbus Academy categorically denied all allegations in a statement to Fox News Digital, saying, &#8220;These allegations are entirely without any legal merit or factual basis whatsoever.&#8221;
An earlier statement sent to the outlet said: &#8220;[A]ny parent who waged a public campaign of false and misleading statements and inflammatory attacks harmful to the employees, the reputation, or the financial stability of Columbus Academy would be in clear violation of the Enrollment Agreement and would be denied re-enrollment for the following school year.&#8221;

Private Ohio Academy Accused Of Alerting FBI When Parents Exposed Left-Wing Curriculum, Financial Mismanagement: Report

Liberalism

Ohio

Former NFL quarterback <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colin-kaepernick-accuses-his-white-adoptive-parents-of-perpetuating-racism-while-they-raised-him" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colin Kaepernick</a> joined “prominent black Marxists” on a book project that aims to defend race-centered curriculum in American schools — and slammed capitalism in the process.
In an <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/173662/black-history-absolute-necessity-colin-kaepernick-book-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The New Republic, Kaepernick defended his decision to partner with Marxist academics Robin D.G. Kelley and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor to edit the anthology “Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies.” The book was born out of a battle over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/revised-version-of-ap-african-american-studies-course-tones-down-wokeness-desantis-admin-reviewing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AP African American Studies courses</a>, which were largely based on elements of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and included radical gender theories until the College Board revised the curriculum following pushback from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. 
“I’ve long admired Keeanga and Robin’s work as well as their uncompromising political analysis and understanding that Black liberation simply isn’t possible under capitalism,” the millionaire quarterback-turned-racial-activist said. “I think the anthology makes this argument quite well, and I hope it challenges readers to see that racism is not white supremacy’s only ingredient. White supremacy persists in part because of its relationship with capitalism, heteropatriarchy, ableism, and so on.”
According to Kaepernick, attacking “black studies” is “core” to the “white supremacist political project” of Republicans like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis who blocked CRT-based curricula from being taught in schools.
“Black Studies and, more generally, a critical engagement with U.S. history, threatens the white supremacist status quo,” Kaepernick said.
Along with editing, Kaepernick, Kelley, and Taylor also wrote essays that made it into the anthology. Essay&#8217;s by W.E.B. Du Bois and Angela Davis condemning capitalism also appear in the book, the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12211641/Colin-Kaepernick-slams-CAPITALISM-promotes-new-black-studies-book-wrote-Marxists.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The capitalism-bashing book is available on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Our-History-Always-Been-Contraband/dp/B0BYDCQ3XQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amazon</a> for $52 for a hardcover and $19.95 for a paperback.
Kaepernick’s last season in the NFL came in 2016, the year he began protesting against police brutality by kneeling for the National Anthem. The 49ers had 10 losses and just one win with Kaepernick under center during the 2016 season before he was benched and ultimately cut by the team.
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The racial activist now runs a non-profit <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colin-kaepernick-new-book-change-the-game-activism-nfl/">focused</a> on “black and brown youth” and lives in a $5.4 million mansion in Las Vegas. Kaepernick said his political thinking has evolved “by reading the works of Black radical thinkers and being in conversation with Black radical organizers.”

Colin Kaepernick

Colin Kaepernick Defends Book Partnership With Marxists, Says ‘Black Liberation’ Not ‘Possible Under Capitalism’

Colin Kaepernick Defends Book Partnership With Marxists, Says 'Black Liberation' Not 'Possible Under Capitalism'

Marxism

Ron DeSantis

Maryland Governor Wes Moore was speaking figuratively Sunday when he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll_ZTlStavA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> bans on certain kids&#8217; library books tantamount to “castrating children,” but the Democrat just last month signed a bill that potentially allows the literal castration of kids.
Moore appeared on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Inside with Jen Psaki,&#8221; when the host and former Biden administration spokeswoman claimed that many parents and conservatives are trying to ban books about African American history from school libraries. Psaki was apparently referring to criticism of books pushing Critical Race Theory, which teaches that whites are oppressors and blacks, perpetual victims.
“I continue hearing people making the argument that we’re doing it because we want to prevent our students from having discomfort or guilt,” Moore said, adding that he believes conservatives actually want to prevent black children from understanding their own history.
“It’s not about making kids feel uncomfortable,” Moore said. “It’s about telling [African American] kids that they shouldn’t understand their own power. It’s castrating them. &#8230; Because if you know your history, you know your power.”
Examples abound of public schools around the country foisting Critical Race Theory on their students. In Philadelphia, an elementary school <a href="https://broadandliberty.com/2021/03/02/todd-shepherd-philadelphia-school-district-stands-by-black-communist-lesson-for-5th-graders/">forced</a> fifth-graders to celebrate “Black communism,&#8221; an elementary school in Cupertino, California, <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/01/15/elementary-school-teacher-tells-students-to-select-their-oppressive-identities/">forced</a> third-graders to deconstruct their racial identities, then rank themselves according to their “power and privilege,” and Buffalo Public Schools <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/02/24/buffalo-students-told-all-white-people-play-a-part-in-systemic-racism/">taught</a> students that “all white people” are guilty of systemic racism and made kindergarteners watch a video of dead black children while warning them about “racist police and state-sanctioned violence.”
Moore is not the only Democrat to fight to keep books about Critical Race Theory in schools. But his choice of word &#8220;castrating&#8221; was ironic, given that as a candidate for governor he <a href="https://wesmoore.com/issues/lgbtq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supported the passage</a> of the Trans Health Equity Act, which promoted “gender-affirming” health care — potentially including chemical and surgical castration.
&#8220;&#8216;Gender-affirming treatment’ may include treatment described in the current clinical standards of care for gender-affirming treatment published by the world Professional Association for Transgender Health,” <a href="https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_252_sb0460t.pdf">read</a> the bill he <a href="https://governor.maryland.gov/news/press/pages/Governor-Moore-Signs-Historic-Reproductive-Freedom-Legislation,-Protects-Women’s-Reproductive-Rights-In-Maryland.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> into law in May.
In September 2022, World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) <a href="https://fox17.com/news/nation-world/transgender-health-org-removes-age-limit-for-gender-affirming-treatment-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chose to remove</a> age requirements for gender-affirming treatment and surgery, which can include chemical and surgical castration. A draft version of WPATH&#8217;s guidelines recommended some sexual reassignment surgeries could start at age 15 or 17.

2023 Morehouse College Commencement Ceremony

Dem Who Compared Book Bans To ‘Castrating’ Children Signed Bill That Literally Allows Castration Of Kids

Dem Gov Who Compared Banning Books To 'Castrating' Children Signed Bill That Literally Allows Castration Of Kids

Children's Books

Maryland

Wes Moore

If you&#8217;ve suffered through any type of mandatory diversity training in your school or workplace, or simply spent enough time on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-users-set-the-record-straight-after-politifact-says-randi-weingarten-advocated-for-reopening-schools-during-pandemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>, you have almost certainly encountered the concept of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-appears-i-have-white-privilege-how-do-i-know-i-took-a-test" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white privilege</a>. It goes something like this: White people, just by virtue of being white, automatically have life a little better than everyone else, especially when compared to black people.
Through no merit of their own, white people are favored in job applications, placed into positions of power, granted more opportunities and higher social status. White people are the majority, and they’re overrepresented in everything. White people don’t have to fear being pulled over or shot by police. The list goes on.
If you are white, at some point during the diversity training or in the throes of a Twitter thread, you also learn that you automatically benefit from this privilege just by existing, and you need to “recognize your privilege,” even if the circumstances of your life show no evidence of it. No matter how hard you’ve worked, no matter how many difficulties you’ve faced, somewhere, your whiteness was always giving you an unfair advantage.
But does white privilege really align with reality? Or does it only hold up if you have a limited perspective?
White privilege is always discussed in the context of America. White privilege apologists cite statistics about the income gap between white and black Americans, for example. And although they frame everything within the context of this country, at the same time, they teach white privilege as a universal truth. They claim white people always have been, always are, and always will be the overrepresented majority getting a free pass and an unfair advantage wherever they go in the world. They are taking statistics and anecdotes from the U.S. and extrapolating that data, applying the same narrow lens to the rest of the world, and assuming things shake out the same way everywhere.
But what if we take a different approach?
Globally, whites are a minority. If you are white and you go to visit China or India, you will stick out like a sore thumb. And who holds the highest political offices in China and India? Obviously not white people. When you broaden your perspective, a piece of the white privilege narrative stops making sense.
Some may argue that even if white people are the minority in some parts of the world, they are still given preferential treatment and better opportunities wherever they go. I don’t think this is true. If you are not an expert in the language and culture of the country you are living in, you will be an outsider to some extent. Even if you take all the language and culture classes you can to prepare yourself, you still won’t have the inside knowledge and social connections of a native. You would have to build that up over years of immersion and assimilation. Without that knowledge and those connections, you would naturally be barred from certain opportunities and from fully participating in everything that country’s society has to offer.
Besides, white privilege apologists place great emphasis on the link between being a minority and being an oppressed victim. It would be disingenuous for them to ignore minority status now that whites are the minority.
When we use a global lens to look at the issue of white privilege, it becomes clear that all the pieces of the white privilege puzzle no longer fit together neatly. White people are only the majority in a small part of the world. White privilege cannot be a universal truth. If it exists at all, it doesn’t exist in exactly the same way in most of the world.
Okay, fine, but why does any of that matter when we’re looking at the US and the racial disparities that exist there? What does the global lens change about that? It matters because reality matters, especially when you’re trying to solve a real problem. White privilege oversimplifies things. It creates overly generalized categories of &#8220;All White People&#8221; vs. &#8220;All People of Color.&#8221;
But reality isn’t simple. Reality is complex because individuals are complex. There are so many factors and decisions that lead to gaps like the income gap between white and black Americans. Blaming all white people for being “part of the problem” is the easy way out.

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The Left’s Big Problem With Taking ‘White Privilege’ Global

The Left's Big Problem With Taking 'White Privilege' Global 

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